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e  Members   of    the    Homoeopathic 
Profession   on   the   Pacific   Coast. 


UNIVERSITY  OF  CALIFORNIA 
AT    LOS  ANGELES 


ROBERT  ERNEST  COWAN 


To  the  Members  of  the  Homoeopathic 
Profession  on  the  Pacific  Coast. 


To  the  Members  of  the  Homoeopathic  Profession  on  the  Pacific 
Coast. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  "minority"  of  the  California  State 
Homoeopathic  Medical  Society  held  February  1st,  1887, 
the  following  report  was  submitted,  unanimously  adopted, 
and  ordered  published  by  the  committee: 


Proof  has  been  given  us  that  an  irregular  diploma  has 
been  issued  by  the  Board  of  Trustees  and  Faculty  of  the 
Hahnemann  Medical  College  of  San  Francisco.  That  it  may 
be  properly  understood,  it  is  necessary  to  give  a  brief  history 
of  what  has  occurred. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Examiners  of  the  Califor- 
nia State  Homoeopathic  Medical  College  (composed  of  Drs. 
J.  M.  Selfridge,  G.  M.  Pease,  E.  S.  Breyfogle,  H.  C. 
French,  G.  E.  Davis,  Sidney  Worth  and  A.  C.  Peterson), 
held  December  10th,  1885,  certain  diplomas,  issued  by  the 
Hahnemann  Medical  College  of  San  Francisco,  were  pre- 
sented for  examination,  witli  a  view  of  granting  the  holders 
thereof  licenses  to  practice  medicine  and  surgery  in  this 
State. 

One  of  the  members  of  the  Board  of  Examiners  at  that 
meeting  said,  ho  "  suspected  "  that  the  diploma  issued  by 
the  Hahuemann  Medical  College  of  San  Francisco  to  C. 
Taubner  of  Sacramento  (not,  however,  ono  of  the  above 
mentioned  diplomas),  and  said  to  be  an  "  tnf  cnmh-ni  M  de- 
gree, did  not  have  "a>/  enndeni''  written  upon  it.  In  an- 
swer to  this,  three  members  of  the  Board  of  Examiners,  who 
were  also  Professors  of  the  College,  and  who  were  present 
at  this  meeting,  stated  that  C.  Taubner  had  previously 
graduated  ///  nirt/icinc.  And  one  of  the  above  three,  Dr. 
Hayes  C.  French,  the  then  Registrar  of  the  College,  asserted 
in  the  most  positive  terms  that  he  wrote  the  words  "  ml 
('tuutnn  "  upon  that  mi'i.o.MA.  Cpon  tliix  »lal'-m<  nt  ///<  //rr^.sr.s 
asked  /<>r  iri'i'i'  </i'iui/c</. 


Just  before  the  annual  meeting  of  the  California  State 
Homoeopathic  Medical  Society,  held  May  12th,  1886,  suffi- 
cient proof  was  obtained  to  question  the  statement  made  by 
Dr.  Hayes  C.  French  before  the  Board  of  Examiners.  This 
proof  is  here  presented  in  the  form  of  an  affidavit,  made  by 
Dr.  A.  McNeil,  an  affidavit  made  by  Frank  Swift,  of  Sac- 
ramento, and  also  by  a  photographic  copy  of  the  diploma  of 
C.  Taubner. 

STATE  OF  CALIFORNIA,  ) 

County  of  San  Francisco,  ) 

A.  McNeil,  being  duly  sworn,  deposes  and  says:  That  on  the 
tenth  day  of  May,  A.  D.  188G,  he  went  in  company  with  Dr.  C. 
E.  Pinkham,  of  Sacramento,  California,  to  call  upon  one  C. 
Taubner,  at  his  oflice  in  Sacramento;  that  he  then  and  there 
conversed  with  said  Taubner  concerning  a  diploma  which  had 
been  granted  to  said  Taubner  by  the  Hahnemann  Medical  Col- 
lege, of  San  Francisco,  on  or  about  October  MOth,  1884;  that 
the  diploma  was  examined  and  found  to  be  an  unqualified 
diploma,  granting  the  title  and  degree  of  "  M.  D."  to  said 
Taubner,  and  was  in  form  and  wording  exactly  similar  to  others 
which  had  been  issued  to  graduates  in  medicine  by  said  Hahne- 
mann Medical  College,  of  San  Francisco. 

It  did  not  show  the  addition  of  any  words,  such  as  "ad  en mlmi" 
or  '•Itnnortif;/,"  which  words  are  frequently  added  to  diplomas 
when  conferred  by  colleges  upon  parties  who  hold  diplomas 
from  some  other  college  of  like  character,  or  when  given  as  a 
mark  of  honor  for  some  distinguished  services.  AVhen  said 
Taubner  was  asked  if  he  did  not  have  some  other  diploma 
showing  him  to  be  a  graduate  in  medicine,  he  replied  that  he 
did  not;  that  the  one  under  observation,  which  was  issued  by 
said  Hahnemann  Medical  College,  of  San  Francisco,  was  the 
only  one  lie  had  ever  received.  This  statement,  on  the  part 
of  said  Taubner,  was  made  and  repeated  in  the  hearing  and 
presence  of  the  aforementioned  Dr.  C.  E.  Pinkham. 

(Signed)  A.  MrNKIL. 

Subscribed   and  sworn   to  before  me,  ) 
this  twelfth  day  of   May,  A.  D.   LSSIi.  \ 

|  Si:\i.)  .J. \\ir.s  L.  KIM;, 

Notary 


STATE  OF  CALIFORNIA,  ) 

-    KS 

County  of  Sacramento,  j 

Frank  Swift,  being  duly  sworn,  says  that  on  or  about  the 
third  or  fourth  of  December,  1885,  he  called  at  the  office  of  Dr. 
Charles  Taubner,  in  Sacramento,  California,  and  examined  his 
diploma  as  it  hung  in  a  frame  upon  the  wall.  It  was  issued  to 
him  by  the  Hahncmann  Medical  College,  of  San  Francisco, 
under  date  of  October  30th,  1884.  Said  diploma  did  not  have 
any  words  like  "ad  eundcni"  or  "honorary"  written  or  printed 
upon  it,  and  it  did  not  look  as  if  any  erasure  had  ever  been  made. 
(Signed)  FRANK  SWIFT. 

Subscribed  and  sworn  to  before  me,  ) 
May  19,  188G.  j 

(SEAL]  ALBERT  M.  JOHNSON, 

Notary  Public. 

At  the  annual  meeting  to  which  reference  has  just  been 
made,  one  of  the  members  having  these  facts  in  his  posses- 
sion, and  feeling  that  the  Board  of  Examiners  had  not  only 
been  deceived,  but  that  the  dignity  of  the  whole  profession 
was  involved  determined  to  bring  the  matter  before  the 
State  Society,  but  not  wishing  to  injure  the  college  by  giv- 
ing it  to  the  public  press,  lie  moved  to  go  into  "  committee 
of  the  whole  "  thus  compelling  all  but  members  of  the  State 
Society  to  leave  the  hall,  and  then  offered  the  following  pre- 
amble and  resolution. 

"  WHKIIKAS,  the  Halmemann  Medical  College  of  San 
Francisco,  lius  been  guilty  of  issuing  irregular  diplomas, 
which  act  involves  the  dignity  of  the  profession  at  large  as 
well  as  the  honor  of  this  society,  therefore  be  it 

Itctiiflri'f/,  That  this  society  hereby  withdraws  its  con- 
fidence and  support  from  said  college." 

In  opening  the  discussion  on  the  above  resolution  Dr. 
Sidney  Worth,  (a  member  of  the  Faculty)  on  behalf  of  the 
college,  claimed  that  the  omission  of  the  words  ''  <"/  m n>l<  in  " 
from  the  diploma  of  C.  Taubner,  was  a  "clerical  error." 

Dr.  II.  11.  Curtis,  (also  a  member  of  the  Kacultvi  said  it 
was  "generally  understood"  that  it  was  to  be  tin  "honorary 
degree." 


Dr.  F.  F.  De  Derky,  (a  member  of  the  Board  of  Trus- 
tees) said:  "I  labored  over  an  hour  with  Dr.  Pease  to  get 
him  to  sign  that  diploma,  and  he  would  not  sign  it  until  I 
promised  him  on  my  honor,  as  a  gentleman,  that  I  would 
have  'adeundem'  written  on  the  diploma,  and  I  did  have  it 
written.  1  saw  Dr.  French  write  *  ad  eundem1  on  that 
diploma.' " 

He  also  acknowledged  "that  he  knen-  C.  Taubner  never  had 
any  other  medical  diploma" 

In  corroboration  of  Dr.  F.  F.  De  Derky 's  statement,  is 
the  following  affidavit  by  Dr.  G.  M.  Pease: 

STATE  OF  CALIFORNIA,  ) 

City  and  County  of  San  Francisco,  j  ' 

G.  M.  Pease  being  duly  sworn,  deposes  and  says.  One  even- 
ing during  the  month  of  November  1884,  or  thereabouts,  Dr.  F. 
F.  DeDerky,  one  of  the  Trustees  of  the  Hahnemann  Medical 
College  of  San  Francisco,  who  resided  at  that  time  in  Sacramento 
Cal. ,  called  upon  deponent  who  was  then  a  professor  in  the  above 
named  college  and  requested  deponent's  signature  to  a  diploma 
for  one  Taubner  of  Sacramento.  All,  or  nearly  all,  the  profes- 
sors except  deponent,  had  signed  it.  But  there  was  a  blank 
where  the  name  of  said  Taubner  should  be,  and  deponent  re- 
fused to  sign  any  diploma  until  the  name  should  bo  filled  in. 
Dr.  DeDerky  explained  that  it  was  left  blank  because  there  was 
some  uncertainty  as  to  the  full  name  of  said  Taubner,  and  it  was 
necessary  to  have  it  correctly  written.  Deponent  further  ob- 
jected because  said  Taubner  had  riot  attended  the  lectures  in  said 
college,  nor  had  he  passed  an  examination.  Dr.  DeDerky  told 
deponent  that,  it  was  not  necessary,  as  Taubner  had  years  before 
attended  college  in  Germany,  or  elsewhere,  and  had  other  diplo- 
mas, that  he  had  practiced  medicine  before  deponent  was  born. 
Deponent  said  lie  did  not  know  that  fact,  and  had  not  seen  the 
diplomas. 

Dr.  DeDerky  replied  that  he  liad  seen  them,  and  tliat  it  would 
do  no  k'ood  {'or  deponent  t<)  try  to  talk  with  said  Taubner.  as  lie 
could  not  speak  English  and  deponent  did  not  speak  (lerman. 
Deponent  replied  you  can  then  make  this  diploma  an  "»J 
»:»//!'/»'///,"  and  I  \\ill  sign  it.  Dr.  DeDerky  said,  but  tjieoldman 
would  prefer  it  to  be  a  regular  diploma,  and  lie  does  not  intend 


to  practice.  Deponent  asked  how  he  could  have  such  a  prefer- 
ence when  it  would  be  quite  as  respectable  to  have  it  "ad  eundem" 
as  showing  previous  qualifications.  Deponent  stoutly  refused  to 
sign  unless  it  was  made  "ad  eundem,"  and  after  a  long  argument 
Dr.  DeDerky  gave  his  word  of  honor,  as  a  gentleman,  that  "ad 
eundem"  should  be  written  upon  the  diploma.  Even  then  de- 
ponent objected  to  signing  it  until  the  words  "ad  eundem"  were 
actually  written,  but  Dr.  DeDerky  said  he  wanted  to  return  to 
Sacramento  early  in  the  morning,  and  would  have  it  written 
ppon  the  diploma,  at  the  same  time  the  name  of  Taubner  was 
written. 

In  the  course  of  the  conversation  deponent  was  told  that 
Taubner  was  a  man  of  means,  who  wished  to  assist  the  college, 
and  had  kindly  paid  the  sum  of  three  hundred  and  five  dollars, 
which  was  the  amount  of  fees  for  a  three  years'  course,  and  it 
would  please  the  old  man  to  receive  the  diploma. 

After  these  statements  and  assurances,  deponent  signed  the 
diploma. 

(Signed)  G.  M.  PEASE. 

Subscribed  and  sworn  to  before  me, ) 

this  14th  day  of  June,  A.D.  188C.  ) 
[SEAL.]  JAMES  L.  KING, 

Notary  Public. 

Dr.  C.  B.  Currier  (the  Dean  of  the  Faculty!  said,  "It 
was  understood  that  the  diploma  of  C.  Taubner  was  to  con- 
fer an  '  honorary  degree;'  that  lie  could  not  understand  what 
the  old  man  (meaning  C.  Taubner),  said,  because  he  could 
not  speak  English;  that  Dr.  Eckel  talked  with  him."  He 
(Dr.  C.  B.  Currier)  did  not  mention  the  name  of  Dr.  F.  F. 
De  Derky  at  that  time. 

Dr.  J.  N.  Eckel  (the  President  of  the  Board  of  Trustees), 
assented  to  the  statement  made  by  Dr.  C.  B.  Currier  by 
keeping  silent. 

This  is  al!  the  evidence  they  had  to  offer  against  the 
charge  made  in  the  beginning  of  the  iliseussioM  bv  one  of 
the  members,  Dr.  J.  M.  Self  ridge,  vix. :  That  the  diploma 
of  C.  Taubner  was  neither  an  "  wl  inni/< •/// "  nor  an  ''/<«//- 
oi-iif//"  degree,  but,  on  the  contrary,  an  unqualified  diploma. 

A  vote  was  then  taken  on  the  resolution,  and  was  lost  by 


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thirteen  (13)  to  ten  (10),  several  of  the  members  present  not 
voting,  nine  of  the  thirteen  being  Professors  of  the  Col- 
lege, three,  (/radnutt-s  of  the  College,  and  the  other  one  a 
member  of  the  Board  of  Trustees. 

After  the  meeting  of  the  State  Society  adjourned  for  the 
night,  six  of  the  members,  Drs.  J.  M.  Selfridge,  G.  M. 
Pease,  A.  McNeil,  E.  S.  Breyfogle,  F.  P.  Green  and  J.  M. 
Young,  went  to  the  office  of  Dr.  G.  M.  Pease,  the  then  Sec- 
retary of  the  Board  of  Examiners,  and  examined  the  Taub- 
ner  diploma,  which  had  been  left  the  same  day,  May  12 (h, 
1880,  with  the  Secretary  of  the  Board  of  Examiners,  with 
the  usual  affidavit,  sworn  to  before  a  Notary  Public,  and 
found  that  "  a<f  cn)i<fcm"  was  not  written  anywhere  upon  it, 
nor,  by  the  aid  of  a  powerful  magnifying  glass  and  trans- 
mitted light,  could  they  find  any  evidence  of  an  erasure  on 
the  parchment,  with  the  exception  of  a  slight  roughing  at 
the  lower  right  hand  corner  of  the  margin,  bciU'ittli  the  KVJ- 
natures. 

The  following  affidavit  confirms  the  above  statement: 


STATE  OF  CAI.IFOHNIA,  ] 

City  and  County  of  San  Francisco,  j 

The  undersigned  being  duly  sworn  depose  und  say. 

That  on  the  evening  of  May  12th,  A.D.  18<S(>,  after  the  close 
of  a  meeting  of  the  "  California  State  Homeopathic  Medical 
Society  "  we  carefully  examined  the  diploma  issued  to  Charles 
Taubner  by  the  Hahncmann  Medical  College  of  San  Francisco, 
under  date  of  October  150,  1SS4,  at  the  office  of  the  Secretary  of 
the  Board  of  F.xaminers  of  the  California  State  Homoeopathic 
Medical  Society,  Dr.  (i.  M.  Pease,  12o  Turk  street.  San  Fran- 
cisco, and  \vere  unable  to  find  aiiv  words  like  "  nil  I'mnli •///  "  or 
•'  lininii'iifi/  "  written  or  printed  upon  said  diploma. 

A  powerful  magnifying  glass  was  also  used  to  ascertain  if 
there  were  evidences  of  erasure  but  none  could  be  found. 

At  the  ext renie  lower  edge,  near  the  right  hand  c> >m« T,  beneath 
the  signatures  on  the  margin,  was  a  slight  [roughening  of  the 
parchment  sii<-h  as  mi'jht  easily  be  made  b\  the  <  dge.  of  a  glass 
used  in  framing  the  diploma. 


No  other  roughening  of  the  surface  was  to  be  seen  and  there 
was  no  evidence  of  mutilation. 

(Signed)  J.  M.  SELFRIDGE, 

EDWIN  S.  BREYFOGLE, 
J.  M.  YOUNG, 

F.  P.  GREEN, 

G.  M.  PEASE, 

A.  McNEIL.  [SEAL] 

Subscribed  and  sworn  to  before  me,    ) 
this  llth  day  of  February,  A.D.  1887.  ) 

.JAMES  L.  KING. 

Notary  Public. 

After  the  meeting  of  the  California  State  Homoeopathic 
Medical  Society,  held  Ma3T  12th,  188G,  a  number  of  the 
members  believing  a  wrong  had  been  committed,  and  believ- 
ing it  proper  to  inform  the  members  of  the  Homoeopathic 
Profession  of  the  Pacific  Coast,  of  this  fact,  called  a  meet- 
ing to  discuss  the  propriety,  and  advisability,  of  publishing 
the  above  facts,  and  publication  was  agreed  upon,  but  as  an 
attempt  to  preserve  harmony,  and  in  order  to  give  the  Board 
of  Trustees,  another  opportunity  to  correct  this  wrong,  a 
committee  of  t\vo,  Drs.  J.  M.  Selfridge  of  Oakland,  and  E. 
S.  Breyfogle  of  San  Francisco,  was  appointed,  and  an  ulti- 
matum was  given  to  them  to  present  to  the  Board  of  Trus- 
tees of  the  Hahnemann  Medical  College  of  San  Francisco. 

The  committee  (Drs.  Selfridge  and  Breyfogle)  after  com- 
municating with  the  Board  of  Trustees,  through  their  Sec- 
retary, Dr.  \V.  E.  Ledyard,  its  desire  to  meet  the  said  Board 
"to  present  a  subject  of  importance  to  the  college  and  also 
of  importance  to  the  general  profession,'"  was  met  by  a  com- 
mittee from  the  said  Board  of  Trustees,  consisting  of  Drs. 
J.  A.  Albertson,  and  William  Boericke,  and  the  subject,  of 
the  charges  above  made,  was  fullv  discussed,  and  the  follow- 
ing paper  \vas  given  to  the  committee,  (_Drs.  Albertson  and 
Boericke,  to  be  presented  to  the  Board  of  Trustees. 


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Das.  ALBERTSON  AND  BOERICKE, 

Committee  of  the  Board  of  Trustees: 

GENTLEMKN — At  a  meeting  of  a  minority  of  the  California  State 
Homoeopathic  Medical  Society,  a  paper  was  presented  for  publi- 
cation, in  which,  with  other  items,  the  following  fact  was  set 
forth:  That  a  diploma,  pretending  to  be  an  "ad  eundem,"  was 
issued  October  30,  1884,  to  one  C.  Taubner,  of  Sacramento,  by 
the  Hahuemann  Medical  College,  of  San  Francisco. 

We  have  all  the  interests  of  homoaopathy  near  to  our  hearts, 
and  therefore  dislike  to  see  any  act  or  acts,  from  any  source 
whatever,  brought  forth,  which  will  injure  homoeopathy.  It 
was  this  same  feeling  that  prompted  us  to  ask  a  ' '  Committee  of 
the  Whole"  to  discuss  the  subject  at  the  last  meeting  of  the 
California  State  Homoeopathic  Medical  Society;  the  subject  of 
the  discussion  being  mainly  the  issuance  of  a  diploma,  which 
we  claim  is  irregular.  Should  it  not  be  proven  as  such,  we,  the 
minority  of  the  State  Medical  Society,  when  we  stated  facts, 
which  we  considered  proof  enough  to  obtain  the  investigation 
we  desired,  would  most  cheerfully  give  our  full  support  to  the 
Hahnemaun  Medical  College,  of  San  Francisco;  but,  unless 
these  facts  can  be  disproved,  we  would  recommend  that,  in 
order  to  sustain  the  dignity  and  present  high  standing  of  ho- 
moeopathy, and  the  good  name  of  the  college,  and  therefore  our 
own  professional  honor,  that  Drs.  C.  B.  Currier,  H.  C.  French, 
and  F.  F.  De  Dcrky,  the  self-implicated  parties,  be  dismissed 
from  the  college. 

We  respectfully  submit  the  above  as  a  substitute  for  what 
seems  to  us  n  very  radical  measure,  namely:  the  publication  of 
the  article  prepared,  signed  and  sworn  to,  which  is  only  held  in 
abeyance  that  you  may  have  an  opportunity  to  stay  the  publica- 
tion, and  to  />"/•//'</  rather  than  </''.<//•"//  the  Hahnemann  Medical 
College,  of  San  Francisco,  as  \ve  are  assured  by  the  best  legal 
talent  on  this  ( 'oast  that  if  a  fraud  has  been  committed  your 
charter  can  be  revoked. 

(Signed)         ,T.  M.  SELFRIDdK. 

KDWIN  S.  BRFYFOGLE, 

Committee. 

The  committee  representing  the  Board  of  Trustees  (Drs. 
Albertsoii  ;uul  1  JoerickiO  returned  the  following  written  reply : 


"  SAN  FRANCISCO,  Nov.  12,  1886. 
To  Diss.  BKKYKOOLE  AND  SKLFRIDOE, 

Committee  of  the  "Minority  of  the  Slate.  Society": 

GEXILEMEN — Referiug  to  our  joint  meeting,  at  which  time 
you  placed  in  our  hands  for  presentation  to  the  Board  of  Trus- 
tees of  the  Hahnemann  M.  Coll.  of  San  Fran'co  a  communi- 
cation giving  your  version  of  the  "  Taubner  diploma  matter," 
\ve  beg  to  inform  you  that  the  undersigned  committee  presented 
it  together  with  a  verbal  report  of  our  interview.  As  your  ver- 
sion of  the  Taubner  diploma  affair  differed  so  materially  from 
what  we  believed  to  be  the  facts  of  the  case,  a  committee  was 
appointed  by  the  Board  of  Trustees  to  thoroughly  investigate 
the  matter  from  the  beginning  and,  if  possible,  arrive  at  the 
exact  state  of  the  facts  relating  thereto.  Hence  the  delay  in 
answering  your  communication  until  now.  From  that  report 
we  will  make  use  of  such  parts  as  seem  necessary  to  cor- 
rect your  view  about  this  controversy.  And  first  we  wish  to 
call  your  attention  to  the  following  statement  and  affidavit  of 
Dr.  C.  B.  Currier,  the  Dean  of  the  college: 

STATE  OF   CALIFORNIA,  ) 

City  and  County  of  San  Francisco.  )  ' 

C.  B.  Currier,  being  duly  sworn,  deposes  and  says:  That  he 
is  now  and  during  the  whole  of  the  calendar  years  1884  and 
1885,  was  Dean  of  the  Hahnemann  Medical  College  of  San 
Francisco. 

That  on  or  about  the  28  day  of  May,  1884,  one  Dr.  C. 
Taubner,  an  aged  German  gentleman,  with  an  imperfect  knowl- 
edge of  the  English  language,  made  application  to  the  authori- 
ties of  said  college,  through  bis  personal  friend,  Dr.  F.  F.  De 
Derky,  for  matriculation,  and  for  graded  course  tickets  for  a 
full  three  years'  course  in  said  medical  college,  for  which  lie 
paid  the  full  fees,  to  wit.  the  sum  of  £305. 

That  at  the  time  when  said  Taubner  made  said  application, 
through  said  De  Derky,  said  De  Derky  informed  the  authorities 
of  said  college  that  said  Taubner  was  a  graduate  of  a  German 
University,  and  that  he  had  practiced  medicine  for  many  years. 

That  at  the  close  of  the  college  year  of  1884,  the  Faculty  of 
said  Halm.  Med.  College,  having  implicit  confidence  in  the  rep- 


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resentations  of  said  De  Derky,  in  good  faith  granted  to  said 
Taubnor  an  "  ad  eundem"  degree.  That  thereafter  a  diploma  of 
such  a  degree  was  duly  prepared  and  signed  by  all  the  members 
of  the  Faculty,  including  Doctors  Pease  and  McNeil. 

That  in  connection  with  said  matter,  no  steps  of  any  kind, 
from  the  beginning  to  the  end,  were  taken  without  the  full  cog- 
nizance and  concurrence  of  every  member  of  the  faculty,  as  in- 
dicated by  his  vote  or  written  assent  thereto,  including  said 
Pease  and  McNeil,  and  that  the  officers  of  said  college,  in  all 
the  proceedings  connected  therewith,  were,  as  affiant  is  thor- 
oughly convinced  and  firmly  believes,  actuated  by  the  highest 
integrity  and  good  faith,  and  he  can  positively  say,  and  swear, 
that  all  his  own  proceedings  in  the  premises  were  taken  and 
performed  in  good  faith.  Further  affiant  saith  not. 

(Signed)  C.  B.  CCRRIER. 

Subscribed  and  sworn  to  before  me,  this ) 
12  day  November,  188G.  j 

[Seal]  J.  H.  BLOOD, 

Notary  Public. 

The  fact  that  Dr.  Taubner  was  a  graduate  from  a  German 
University  as  stated  in  above  document,  having  been 
questioned,  the  committee  informed  itself  and  found  that 
said  Taubner  had  received  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Phil- 
osophy from  the  University  of  Giessen,  German}',  on  May 
'JOth,  lSo,j.  The  following  is  an  exact  wording: 

"  Post  exhibita  ac  comprobata  et  ingenii  et  eruditionis  doc- 
trinsnque  pneclara  specimina  Doctoris  Philosophise  Honores  et 
411:0  cuuque  immunitates  prrcrogativas  jura  ac  privilegia  usdem 
annexa  ritu  et  more  majorum  sub  sigillo  Acadeuiiao  majore. " 

After  graduating  in  the  philosophical  studies  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  Giessen,  in  1S:>."),  Iu3  spont  throe  years  at  the 
I  diversity  of  JJerlin,  pursuing  philological  and  theological 
studies.  When  finished  lie  traveled  over  Europe,  anil  the 
Orient  and  in  1S4S,  came  to  U.  S.  where  he  prac- 
ticed medicine  in  Johnstown  for  many  years.  Surely  a 
sullicient  preparation  for  an  ad  euudcm  or  honorary  degree 
from  any  inst it ution. 

1  i' >:n  thos-3  doijiiinonts  th  :  following  plain  and  simple 
facts  can  be  readily  inferred: 


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1.  Application  was  made  for  matriculation  accompanied 
by  the  fees  for  3  full   terms  of  lectures  at   the  opening  of 
the  first  term. 

This  application  was  made  by  Dr.  De  Derky  for  his  friend 
Dr.  Taubner,  and  accepted  by  the  Dean.  The  statement  of 
the  Doctor's  classical  studies  was  made  by  Dr.  De  Derky, 
and  of  course  considering  the  standing  of  the  parties  unhes- 
itatingly accepted  by  the  Dean. 

2.  That  at  the  end  of  the  first  term  in  view  of  his  former 
graduation  as  a  Doctor  of  Philosophy,  his  general  learning 
and  experience,  his  age,  and  inability  to  attend  the  required 
lectures  for  the  full  three  terms,  an  Ad  Eundem  degree  was 
granted  him  instead  of  the  regular  degree.     This,  we  are 
assured,  the  College  had  every  legal  right  to  do. 

3.  The  Diploma  was  designated  Ad  Eundem  by  the  Regis- 
trar's writing  said  words  in  the  corner  of  the  diploma.     And 
this  we  believe  to  be  the  sole  mistake  in  the  matter.     It 
ought  to   have  been    written   in    the   body  of  the  diploma 
(where,  indeed  it  is  now)  instead  of  in  one  corner,  where  it 
was  possible  to  erase  it,  and  submit  the  diploma  to  mutila- 
tion, as  the  subsequent  history  proved,  without  very  materi- 
ally altering  the  aspect  of  the  diploma. 

We  have  said  that  the  words  Ad  Eundem  wore  written  on 
the  diploma  by  the  Registrar  of  that  year,  Dr.  H.  0.  French. 
The  following  affidavit  bears  on  this  point: 

STATE  OF  CALIFORNIA,     ] 
Couiity  of  Sacramento,  j 

Hayes  C.  French  bcin^  first  duly  sworn,  says  That,  I  was  Reg- 
istrar of  the  Hahnemann  Medical  College  of  S.  F.  in  'Si; 
that  I,  by  direction  of  the  Medical  Faculty  of  said  college, 
wrote  on  the  lower  ri^ht  hand  corner  of  Dr.  Taubner's  diploma 
the  words  Ad  Eundem,  and  then  delivered  said  diploma  to  the 
proper  officers,  and  said  words  were  on  said  diploma  when  said 
diploma  was  delivered  to  Dr.  Taubner.  The  said  words  have 
been  cut  off  and  erased  from  said  diploma  without  my  knowl- 
edge or  consent. 

(Signed)  H.  C.  FRENCH. 

Subscribed  and  sworn  to  before  me,  ) 

this  -2\)  day   of   September,  1S8U.  \ 

| SKAL. ]  L.    S.    T \YLOK_ 

Notarv   I'ulilif, 


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Again,  the  following  copy  of  an  affidavit  by  the  Joint 
Committee  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  and  Faculty  explains 
itself: 

STATE  OF  CALIFORNIA,     ) 
County  of   Sacramento,  j 

William  Boericke  and  H.  C.  French  and  E.  A.  Schreck,* 
being  first  duly  sworn,  each  for  himself  deposes  and  says: 

That  on  the  29  Sept.,  A.  D.  1886,  at  Sacramento  City,  we 
examined  the  diploma  issued  to  Dr.  C.  Taubner  on  the  30  Oct., 
1884,  by  the  Hahnem  Med.  C.  of  San  Fr.,  which  examination 
was  made  in  the  presence  of  Dr.  C.  Taubner  and  L.  S.  Taylor,  a 
Notary  Public. 

That  said  diploma  was  first  examined  in  the  frame  and  then, 
by  the  consent  of  Dr.  Taubuer,  was  removed  from  the  frame,  and 
then  carefully  examined;  that  at  the  lower  right  hand  corner  of 
said  diploma  were  marks  of  a  sharp  instrument  abraiding  the 
surface  of  the  parchment,  the  same  as  would  be  necessary  in 
erasing  writing  or  printed  words,  which  abrasion  was  on  the 
lower  edge,  and  extending  a  little  more  than  an  inch,  and  being 
about  a  quarter  of  an  inch  wide;  that  we  also,  by  a  careful  com- 
parison of  said  diploma  with  one  of  the  blanks  used,  we  found 
that  said  diploma  had  been  mutilated  by  cutting  a  strip  from 
the  bottom  of  the  parchment  between  j|  and  half  an 
inch  in  width,  commencing  at  the  lower  right  hand  corner  and 
gradually  narrowing  until  it  was  ^  of  an  inch  at  the  left 
hand  lower  corner. 

That  at  the  same  time  the  words  Pro  honoris  causa  were 
written  into  the  body  of  said  diploma  by  E.  A.  Schreck. 

That  the  parchments  used  for  diplomas  by  said  Medical  Col- 
lege is  of  uniform  size,  as  used  in  the  year  1884. 

(Signed)  H.  C.  FRENCH. 

WM.  BOERICKE. 
E.  A.  SCII  RECK. 
Subscribed  and  sworn  to  before  me,  ) 

this  20  day  of  Sept.,  18H6.  | 

[SEAL  |  L.  S.  TAVLOK, 

Notary  Public. 

To  which  may  bo  added  the  following  statement  of  tlio 
Notary  Public,  a  perfect  stranger  to  us  all: 


iH-rciifter  hi*  name  will  be  oiiiitti-'l  in  tin 


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I,  L.  S.  Taylor,  a  Notary  Public,  hereby  certify  that  I  was 
present  at  the  examination  of  the  diploma  mentioned  in  this 
affidavit,  and  saw  the  evidence  of  erasure  and  mutilation,  and  I 
believe  the  statement  within  to  be  correct,  and  that  the  evidences 
of  erasures  and  mutilation  are  conclusive. 

(Signed)  L.  S.   TAYLOR, 

Notary  Public. 

We  cannot  conceive  how  any  fair  minded  man  can  help 
abiding  by  the  statements  in  above  documents,  which  to  us 
are  simply  unimpeachable,  and  we  have  no  desire  to  convince 
anybody  of  the  justice  and  reasonableness  of  our  cause,  if 
the  above  documents  are  unable  to  do  so.  The  unavoidable 
difficulties  that  beset  every  new  venture,  besides  the  inex- 
perience that  characterizes  all  who  enter  upon  any  pioneer 
work,  not  to  speak  of  the  determined  opposition  of  some  of 
the  members  of  our  own  household,  are  quite  sufficient  to 
account  for  all  mistakes,  both  apparent  and  real.  We  know 
we  have  made  such,  but  we  know  too,  gentlemen,  more  than 
you  are  ready  to  give  us  credit  for,  that  in  all  our  doings  we 
have  been  actuated  solely  by  the  real  good  of  the  cause  of 
homoeopathy,  pursued  according  to  the  best  light  that  we 
had.  We  know  this  to  be  the  truth,  and  fair,  and  just,  and 
unprejudiced  investigation  from  any  source  will  establish  it. 
As  a  contribution  to  such  investigation  \ve  hope  the  above 
statement  of  facts  will  be  welcomed  by  every  member  of  the 
"minority  of  the  State  Society." 

Very  sincerely  yours, 
WM.  BOERICKE,      /  , 
J.   A.  ALBERTSckP 

In  their  reply,  you  will  notice  that  the  first  point  to 
which  our  attention  is  called,  is  a  sworn  statement,  by  Dr. 
(1.  .!>.  Currier,  the  Dean,  in  which.hr  admits  the  receipt  of 
t/trcf  Innxlrcd  <nnl  jirc  ilullnrx,  the  fee  "  for  matriculation  and 
for  graded  course  tickets  for  a  full  three  years'  course  in 
said  Medical  College,"  and  also  admits  the  y '""'"'"'''""  of 
Taubner,  at  the  close  of  the  //r.sY  /<•/•///. 

In  the  second  annual   announcement  of  the  Hahnemann 


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Medical  College  of  San  Francisco,  1885,  page  11,  is  found 
the  following: 

"  One  full  eoiirse  to  accredited  graduates  of  other  medical 

colleges $50  00" 

And  on  page  10,  under  "Requirements  for  Gradua- 
tion:" 

"He  must  have  attended  three  full  regular  courses  of  lectures, 
the  last  of  which  must  have  been  at  this  College." 

"  He  must  pass  all  the  regular  examinations,  etc." 

What  inference  can  be  drawn  from  Dr.  Currier's  sworn 
statement,  after  reading  the  above  ?  If  he  believed  that  said 
Taubner  "was  a  graduate  of  a  German  University,"  as  he 
swears  he  was  informed  by  Dr.  De  Derky,  why  did  he 
accept  a  fee  for  a  full  three  years'  course?  Was  not  the  said 
Taubuer  entitled  to  an  unqualified  diploma,  for  $50,  at  the 
close  of  the  college  year  of  1884  ? 

Dr.  C.  B.  Currier,  the  Dean,  also  swears:  "That  in 
connection  with  said  matter,  no  steps  of  atu/  kind  from  the 
beginning  to  the  end,  were  taken,  without  the  full  cogni- 
zance and  concurrence  of  every  member  of  the  faculty,  as 
indicated  by  his  vote  or  written  assent  thereto,  including 
said  Pease  and  McNeil." 

The  following  affidavits,  by  Drs.  B.  P.  Wall,  G.  M.  Pease 
and  A.  McNeil — all  members  of  the  faculty  at  that  time — are 
a  sufficient  reply  to  the  above : 

STATE  OF  CALIFORNIA,  ) 

County  of  Alameda.  j 

B.  P.  Wall,  M.D.,  being  duly  sworn,  deposes  and  says:  That  ho 
was  a  Professor  in  the  Hahnemann  Medical  College  of  San 
Francisco,  during  the  year  1884.  That  in  regard  to  the  diploma 
of  one  (.'.  Taubner,  deponent  says  that  he  was  not  aware  that 
"  the  Faculty  of  said  Hahnemann  Medical  College  ""had  ''  in  good 
faith  granted  to  said  Taubner  an  ad  I'limli'in  decree."  That  he 
was  not  aware  that  "  thereafter  a  diploma  of  such  a  decree  was 
duly  prepared."  That  when  Dr.  F.  F.  J)e  Derky  p-esented  said 
diploma  for  the  signature  of  deponent,  ut  his  otlice  in  .Berkeley, 
the  words  tnl  *•(///*/»•//>  were  not  on  said  diploma,  and  nothing  was 


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said  about  its  being  an  ad  eundem  degree.  That  said  De  Derky 
was  in  a  great  hurry  to  catch  the  next  train,  and  represented  that 
all  the  other  Professors  would  sign  the  said  diploma,  that  had 
not  already  done  so.  That  upon  the  foregoing  representations 
deponent  signed  the  said  Taubner  diploma. 
Written  the  fourth  day  of  January,  1887. 

(Signed)         B.  P.  WALL. 
Subscribed  and  sworn  to  before  me,  ) 
this  5th  day  of  January,  A.D.  1887.  ) 

[SEAL]  A.  B.  MERHILL, 

Notary  Public  in  and  for  Alarueda  Co. ,  Cal. 


(•  ss. 
>  ^ 


STATE  OF  CALIFORNIA, 
City  and  County  of  San  Francisco 

G.  M.  Pease,  being  duly  sworn,  deposes  and  says  that  during 
the  college  term  of  1884  he  was  Professor  of  Gyn ecology  and 
Surgical  Diseases  of  Women  in  the  Hahnemann  Medical  College 
of  San  Francisco,  and  neither  during  that  time  nor  for  a  long 
time  after  he  signed  a  diploma  for  one  Charles  Taubner,  of 
Sacramento,  did  he  know  that  said  Taubner  was  not  a  previous 
graduate  in  medicine;  nor  was  he  ever  told  or  given  to  under- 
stand until  some  time  in  November,  188G,  that  said  Taubner 
possessed  a  diploma  showing  him  to  be  a  graduate  in  Philosophy. 
On  the  contrary  he  was,  prior  to  May,  1880,  made  to  believe 
that  said  Taubner  did  possess  a  medical  diploma  and  had  been 
in  medical  practice  for  many  years  as  a  graduate  in  medicine. 
Further,  he  did  not  know  during  any  part  of  the  year  1884  that 
said  Taubuer  had  applied  "  for  matriculation  and  for  graded 
course  tickets  i'or  a  full  three  years'  course  in  said  Medical 
College,  for  which  he  paid  the  full  fee,  to  wit:  The  sum  of 
$305."  He  only  learned  from  rumor  that  said  Taubner,  being 
a  man  of  means,  who  wished  to  help  the  college,  had  donated 
about  three  hundred  dollars. 

He  did  not  know  that  "  the  Faculty  of  said  Hahnemann 
Medical  College  "  had,- "  in  full  faith,  granted  to  said  Taubner 
an  nd  i  iin/li'in  degree.  "  Deponent  further  says  that  said  diploma 
was  presented  to  him  at  his  oih'ce  in  San  Francisco  by  Dr.  F.  F. 
De  Derky,  for  his  signature,  said  De  Derky  was  in  a  great  hurry 
and  represented  that  lie  wanted  to  take  the  early  train  to  Sacra- 
mento. Deponent  further  s:iys  that  most  of  the  Professors  of 


1G 

the  college  had  previously  signed  said  diploma;  that  the  name 
of  Charles  Taubner  was  not  on  the  diploma,  and  the  words  "  ad 
eundem "  were  neither  printed  or  written  anywhere  on  said 
diploma,  but  that  said  De  Derky  gave  his  word  of  honor  as  a 
gentleman  that  the  words  "ad  eundem"  should  be  written  upon 

said  diploma. 

(Signed)  G.  M.  PEASE. 

Subscribed  and  sworn  to  before  me,  this ) 
10th  day  of  February,  A.D.  1887.          J 

JAS.  L.  KINO, 
[SEAL]  Notary  Public, 

308  California  Street,  San  Francisco. 

STATE  OF  CALIFORNIA,  ) 

City  and  County  of  San  Francisco,  j  8 

A.  McNeil,  being-  duly  sworn,  deposes  and  says:  That  during 
the  college  term  of  1884  and  1885  he  was  Professor  of  Materia 
Medica  in  the  Hahnemann  Medical  College  of  San  Francisco; 
that  in  1884  he  signed  a  diploma  which  was  represented  to  be  for 
one  Chas.  Taubner,  of  Sacramento;  but  that  he  did  not  know  at 
that  time,  nor  did  he  know  until  May,  188G,  that  said  Taubner 
was  not  a  previous  graduate  in  medicine;  nor  was  he  ever  told 
or  given  to  understand,  until  some  time  in  November,  188G,  that 
said  Taubner  possessed  a  diploma  showing  him  to  be  a  graduate 
in  Philosophy. 

On  the  contrary,  he  was,  prior  to  1886,  made  to  believe  that 
said  Taubner  did  possess  a  medical  diploma,  and  had  been  in 
medical  practice  for  many  years  as  a  graduate  in  medicine.  De- 
ponent further  says  that  he  did  not  know,  during  any  part  of 
the  year  18S4,  that  said  Taubner  had  applied  "  for  matriculation 
and  for  graded  course  tickets  for  a  full  three-years'  course  in 
said  Medical  College,  for  which  lie  paid  the  full  fee,  to  wit: 
$305." 

He  only  learned  from  rumor  that  said  Taubner,  being  a  man 
of  means,  who  wished  to  help  the  college,  had  contributed  a 
sum  of  money  to  said  college  as  a  donation. 

He  did  not  know  that  "  the  Faculty  of  said  Hahnemann  Med- 
ical College  hud  in  full  faith  granted  to  said  Taubner  an  '  ad 
I'luidt'ni '  degree. " 

Deponent  further  says  that,  before  affixing  his  signature, 
many  of  the  Professors  of  the  College  had  previously  signed 


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said  diploma;  that  the  name  of  Charles  Taubner  was  not  on 
the  diploma,  and  the  words,  '•  ad  eundem  "  were  neither  printed 
nor  written  anywhere  on  said  diploma;  but  deponent  was  led  to 
believe  that  they  would  be  written  upon  it  before  it  was  de- 
livered to  said  Taubuer. 

(Signed)  A.  McNEIL. 

Subscribed  and  sworn  to  before  me, ) 
this  10th  day  of  Feb'y,  A.D.  1887.  f 

JAS.  L.  KING, 
[SEAL]  Notary  Public, 

308  California  street,  San  Francisco. 

The  reply  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  further  states  "  that 
said  Taubner  had  received  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Phil- 
osophy from  the  University  of  Geissen,  Germany,  on  May 
20,  1835."  After  this  "he  spent  3  years  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  Berlin,  pursuing  philological  and  theological 
studies,''  after  "traveling,"  he  came  "to  U.  S.,  where 
he  practiced  medicine  iu  Johnstown  for  many  years." 
"  Surely  (they  say)  a  sufficient  preparation  for  ;vn  'ad  cnndeui 
or  'Honorary  Degree'  from  any  institution." 

One  would  suppose  from  the  answer  of  the  Board  of  Trus- 
tees that  the  terms  "  (id  eundem"  and  "honorary"  were 
synonymous;  whereas,  the  meaning  of  "ad  eundan  "  is  "to 
the  same  degree,"  (gradum  being  understood)  and  "pro 
honor!*  cansti"  (Honorary)  is  "for  the  cause  or  sake  of 
honor/'  An  "  ad  eundeiu"  degree  in  medicine  can  therefore 
only  be  issued  to  one  having  previously  received  an  n  IK/ ugli- 
fied diploma  from  a  im-dical  college  in  good  standing. 

An  "honorary"  (pro  honoris  causa')  degree,  in  medicine, 
may  be  issued  only  to  a  medical  yradiiute  who  has  acquired 
E.MIXKXCK  in  his  profession. 

It  appears  that  C.  Taubner  was  a  gentleman  of  great 
literary  attainments,  -and  was  sai<l  to  have  "  practiced  medi- 
cine manv  years  in  Johnstown."  Arc?  these1  "sufficient 
preparations"  for  an  "  ad,  cxndeni  "  degree  in  undid  m  '.' 

As  the?  Board  of  Trustees  elul  not  consider  it  necessary 
to  examine1  C.  Taubner,  as  to  his  knowledge1  of  medicine, 
was  it  not  the?  did//  of  Dr.  ('.  B.  Currier,  the1  Dean,  to  have 


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at  least  required  the  said  C.  Taubnerto  produce  documentary 
evidence  thereof,  as  is  required  by  every  respectable  college  in 
the  land,  and  which  is  doubtless  required  by  the  constitu- 
tion and  by-laws  of  the  very  institution  of  which  he  is  Dean, 
rather  than  to  have  depended  on  the  word  of  Dr.  De  Derky, 
even  if  he  did  have  "  implicit  confidence  in  the  representa- 
tions of  said  De  Derky";  whereas,  he  (C.  Taubuer)  never 
held,  or  claimed  to  have  held,  or  produced,  or  was  required  to 
produce  any  medical  diploma  whatever. 

The  reply  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  further  states  that 
"the  diploma  was  designated  'ad  eundeni1  by  the  Registrar's 
writing  said  words  in  the  corner  of  the  diploma."  It  is 
admitted  in  their  reply  that  ad  eundeni  "  ought  to  have  been 
written  in  the  body  of  the  diploma." 

Why  was  it  not  "written  in  the  body  of  the  diploma," 
and  why  was  it  written  "in  the  corner  of  the  diploma," 
where  it  coitld  have  been  covered  by  an  ordinary  frame, 
thus  making  it  appear  to  be  an  unqualified  diploma  ? 

Dr.  Hayes  C.  French  swears  that  he  wrote  it  there  by 
the  direction  of  the  Medical  Faculty.  (This  statement, 
however,  is  directly  controverted  by  the  affidavits  of  three 
professors  of  the  college.) 

Were  the  "Medical  Faculty"  ignorant  of  the  proper 
place  to  write  "ad  enndt'in,"  or  was  it  because  they  Jen  civ 
that  (.'.  Taiilnier  expected  to  obtain  an  unqualified  diploma  ? 

Drs.  William  Boericke  and  Hayes  C.  French,  the  "Joint 
Committee  of  the  Board  of  Trustees,  and  Faculty, "  swear, 
"that  at  the  same  time  (Sept.  21t,  1880,)  tlio  words  '  pro 
limntri*  ruiiNti '  were  written  into  the  body  of  sai<l  diploma.'' 
these  gentlemen  wen;  both  members  of  the  Furulhj,  and 
according  to  the  sworn  statement  of  Dr.  C.  B.  Currier,  the 
I). -an,  li  that  in  connection  witli  said  matter  no  steps  of  any 
kind,  from  the  b>'i/imnii;i  to  the  end,  were  taken  without  the 
full  cogni/anoo  and  concurrence  of  ever//  ni<'ml><-i-  of  flu-  l'\ic- 
ullii;"  and  Drs.  Boericke  and  French  were  members  of  the 
"Joint  Committee  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  and  Facultv  " 
and  \\r->te  "///'/  /iniinnx  rv"/.w  '  "into  the  body  of  tin,1 
(1  ]>'  miatliat  Dr.  C.  15.  Currier  Nif-arx  was  an  "</.< 


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Wore  they  instructed  to  do  this,  and  why  were  such 
instructions  given  to  them  if,  as  they  say  in  their  written 
answer,  ''the  College  had  every  legal  right"  to  issue  this 
"ad  cundem"  degree,  and  why  did  these  members  convert 
this  "  ad  eundem*'  degree  into  an  honorary  degree  if  the  said 
C.  Taubuer  was  "morally  and  legally'"  entitled  to  an  "  ad 
eundem"  in  medicine,  and  lohy,  in  all  (heir  annual  announce- 
ments did  they  publish  the  name  of  (7.  Taubner  as  a  GRADUATED 
M.  D.,  except  in  the  annual  announcement  of  1887,  page  21, 
where  his  name  appears  for  the  FIRST  TIME  as  having  graduated 
honor  arily  ? 

And  where  did  the  American  Institute  of  Homwopathij  obtain 
the  information  that  led  to  the  publication  of  the  following  in 
the  transactions  of  the  American  Institute  for  1885,  page  f>4'2: 
C.  Taubner  "GRADUATED  AT  25  YEARS  OF  AGE  IN  A  GERMAN* 
MEDICAL  UNIVERSITY,  AND  PRACTICED  EVER  SINCE." 

C.  Taubuer  certainly  had  some  "legal  rights,"  because 
he  had  paid  $305  for  an  alleged  "al  eu.ndnm"  degree,  when 
he  should  have  had  an  unqualified  diploma  for  -S50  (as  is 
shown  by  their  annual  announcements)  if  he  was  entitled 
to  any  diploma,  and  since  he  finally  received  only  an  Jt»n- 
orart/  degree,  he  was  entitled  to  the  return  of  the  foe  of 
$305,  because  an  honorary  degree  is  always  complimentary. 
But  the  fee  ican  nof  returned. 

Drs.  William  Boericke  and  Hayes  C.  French,  the  "Joint 
Committee  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  and  Faculty,"  K/rear 
"that  on  the  '2(M/t  <lnj  »f  Sept.,  A.  D.  1880,"  -•' we  exam- 
ined the  diploma  issued  to  C.  Taubner  on  the  30//r  >/"//  <>/' 
Ortober,  188-4."  "  That  said  diploma  was  y/V.s/  e.c«  mi, ,<•<!.  in, 
the  frame,  and  then  was  re  mo  red  front  (he  /rmnr,  and  then 
C"/v /'//////  examined;  that  at  the  lou'er  riglil  /nnnf  <-onn  r  of 
said  diploma  were  marks  of  a  sharp  instrument  abrading  (he 
surface  of  the  parchment,  the  same  as  would  be  necessary  in 
erasing  written  or  printed  words,  which  abrasion  was  on  tho 
i.owF.it  1:1  ><;K." 

"That  we  also,  by  a  careful  comparison  of  said  diploma 
with  one  of  the  blanks  used,  we  found  that  said  diploma  //•"/ 
l>i-t'n  iinililnli'il,  bv  cutting  a  strip  from  the  /<-V/M///  of  t';e 
parchment." 


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In  their  written  answer,  the  committee,  Drs.  Albertson 
and  Boericke,  for  the  Board  of  Trustees,  comment  on  the 
above  as  follows: 

"The  diploma  was  designated  'ad  eundem'  by  the  Regis- 
trar's writing  said  words  in  the  corner  of  the  diploma.  And 
this  we  believe  to  be  the  sole  mistake  in  the  matter.  It  ought 
to  have  been  written  in  the  body  of  the  diploma  (WHERE, 
INDEED,  IT  is  NOW)  instead  of  in  one  corner,  where  it  was 
possible  to  erase  it  and  submit  the  diploma  to  mutilation,  as 
the  subsequent  history  proved,  without  very  materially  alter- 
ing the  aspect  of  the  diploma." 

Drs.  William  Boericke  and  Hayes  C.  French  swear,  as 
shown  above,  that  they  examined  the  Taubner  diploma — 
nearlj7  two  years  after  this  diploma,  purporting  to  have  been 
an  "ad  eundem,"  was  issued  to  0.  Taubner.  Why  did  the 
Board  of  Trustees  and  Faculty  permit  this  loug  time  to 
elapse  (namely,  from  October  30,  1884,  to  September  29, 
1886,)  before  examining  the  Taubner  diploma,  and  why  the 
necessity  of  </«  examination,  if  they  believed  the  said 
diploma  to  be  an  "  ad  eundem  "  ? 

The  "Joint  Committee"  finds,  "after  removing  (he 
diploma  from  the  frame  and  carefully  examining  it,  that  said 
diploma  had  been  mutilated,  by  cutting  a  strip  from  the 
bottom  of  the  parchment." 

Webster  defines  the  word  mutilate  as  "  1st.  To  cut  off  an 
essential  part  of — and  2d.  To  remove  a  material  part  of,  so 
as  to  render  imperfect." 

No  essential  or  material  part  of  said  Taubner  diploma  had 
•been  removed  when  examined  by  Drs.  Selfridgo,  Pease, 
McNeil,  E.  S.  Broyfogle,  Green  and  Young,  at  the  office-  of 
Dr.  G.  M.  Pease,  J%  I'lfh,  188(5,  after  the  photograph  of 
the  diploma  hud  been  taken  (see  photograph)  and  pri-rintix 
to  the  Joint  Committee's  examination,  which  was  at  the  time 
it  was  received  accompanied  by  an  affidavit  for  a  license. 
X<>  abrasion  «f  any  kind  <>r  defacement  tens  /'omul  a/>ovc  the 
siy natures,  neit/ter  //•<•/'(  the  words  "  ad  e.undctn  '  finind  irrittcn. 
(ui>/irhere  <>n  the  parchment . 

'/'/a  retunral  of  the  entire  "parchment"  heneath  tin-  xiyna- 


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tares  WOULD  NOT  have  been  a  "mutilation,"  because  it  deprived 
the  diploma  of  NO  ESSENTIAL  OR  MATERIAL  PART.  This  is 
shown  in  the  photographic  copy  of  the  diploma  by  the  wide 
margin  remaining  beneath  the  signatures  and  above  the 
alleged  "  mutilation." 

The  words  "ad  eundeni"  should  have  been  written  "in 
the  body  of  the  diploma,"  (as  they  admit)  above  the  signa- 
tures, before  the  signatures  were  written,  the  erasure  of  the 
words  "ad  enndein"  then,  without  the  consent  of  all  the 
persons  whose  signatures  were  beneath  them,  ought  to 
constitute  a  felony. 

"What  right  had  this  "Joint  Committee  "  to  write  the 
words  "  pro  honoris  causa"  into  the  bodij  of  the  Taubner 
diploma,  above  the  signatures,  without  the  consent  of  all  the 
signers  to  the  diploma.  Was  this  a  Ic'jal  act? 

We  do  not  admit  that  the  diploma  was  "mutilated,"  as 
the  alleged  "mutilation"  was  under  the  signatures;  but  we 
will  admit  that  the  words  "adeitndem"  were  written  "on 
the  lower  right  hand  corner"  of  the  blank  parchment,  as 
sworn  to  by  Dr.  Hayes  C.  French;  and  we  also  admit  that 
the  parchment  under  the  signatures  which  contained  the 
words  "ad  etuidc.ni"  was  removed,  possibly  iu  the  process 
of  framing. 

This  admission,  however,  (foes  not  establish  the  truth  of 
the  statement  made  by  Dr.  Hayes  C.  French  to  the  l>oard 
of  Examiners,  at  the  meeting  held  December  10,  188."),  which 
was  "that  lie  wrote  the  words  '  <>d  cniidnn'  upon  that 
DIPLOMA,"  which  assertion  secured  licenses  for  all  the  grad- 
uates of  the  Hahnemann  Medical  College  of  San  Francisco 
who  had  presented  their  diplomas  and  affidavits  to  the 
Hoard  of  Examiners  at  that  meeting,  and  also  secured  the 
recognition  of  the  Hahnemaun  Medical  College  of  San  Fran- 
cisco by  the  .hoard  of  Examiners. 

Dr.  Hayes  C.  French  kn>  »'  at  that  time  that  ' 'ud  <->in<7rnt^ 
was  no/  written  upon  the  /«"///  of  said  diploma  of  C.  Taubner, 
but  was  written  "on  t IK;  lower  right  hand  comer,1'  far 
bi'ncalli  the  signatures,  where  it  would  be  covered  /'/'framed, 
ami  where  it  did  not  <1rt,-n,-t  mn  pitrfi<-/<  <>/'  /•<////»  from  the 


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unqualified  diploma  which  C.  Taubner  held  for  nearly  two 
years,  and  knowing  this,  Dr.  Hayes  C.  French  deceived  the 
majority  of  the  Board  of  Examiners  at  that  meeting,  who, 
in  good  faith,  issued  the  above  mentioned  licenses,  and 
which  licenses  would  not  have  been  issued  had  it  not  been 
for  the  deception  of  Dr.  Hayes  C.  French. 

If  the  "  cutting  of  a  strip  from  the, bottom  of  the  parch- 
ment" was  a  mutilation,  was  it  not  the  duty  of  the  Board  of 
Trustees  and  Faculty,  who  issued  the  diploma,  to  have  used 
every  means  within  their  power  to  have  brought  the  one 
guilty  of  the  mutilation  to  justice?  Who  was  most  benefitted 
by  the  alleged  mutilation? 

Did  the  Board  of  Trustees  and  Faculty  really  believe 
that  this  diploma  could  be  mutilated  by  "cutting  a  strip  from 
the  bottom  of  the  parchment,"  far  beneath  the  signatures? 

It  is  admitted  in  their  written  answer  that  "ad  eundem" 
"ought  to  have  been  written  in  the  bod}-  of  the  diploma," 
(and  at  the  date  of  their  answer,  November  12,  1880,  they 
say)  [WHERE,  IXIJEED,  IT  is  NOW]. 

We  will  say,  in  reply,  that  the  words  "  ad,  cnndrm  "  are 
not  HOW,  and  never  have  been,  written  in  or  across  the  body 
of  the  Taubner  diploma,  for  thoir  answer  of  November  12, 
188(5,  contains  a  sworn  affidavit  of  their  "Joint  Committee,'' 
which  says:  "That  at  the  same  time  (nearly  two  years  after 
the  diploma  had  been  issued,  September  29,  18Sf>, )  the 
words  'pro  honoris  causa"1  wore  written  into  the  /;<«///  of  said 
diploma."  and  by  instructions  from  the  Board  of  Trustees 
and  Faculty. 

They  further  savin  their  answer  "  we  cannot  conceive 
how  any  fair  minded  man  c.-m  help  abiding  by  the  statements 
in  the  above  documents,  which  to  us  are  simplv  unimpeach- 
ble,  and  m-  //<ir<  no  di'.sirc  to  convince  tiu>/l><>t/>/  of  the  justice 
and  reasonableness  of  our  cause,  if  the  above  documents  are 
unable  to  do  so.''  Fs  this  a  proper  reph  to  Ljive  to  the 
minority,  which  has  honestly  endeavored  to  correct  this 
great  wrong  done  against  the  r ////Ye  homoeopathic  profession  V 
The  minority  is  composed  of  "  fair  minded  "  men.  and  had 
they  believed  the,  statements  made  by  the  Board  of  Trustees 


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through  their  committee  to  the  minority,  they  would  have 
abided  by  them;  but  the  affidavits  given  above  have  ques- 
tioned their  statements,  and  therefore  we  are  unable  to  see 
the  "justice  and  reasonableness"  of  their  cause. 

We  do  not  admit  that  there  were  any  "unavoidable  diffi- 
culties" in  establishing  this  college — as  there  is  as  good 
talent  among  the  members  of  the  homoeopathic  profession 
on  the  Pacific  Coast  as  elsewhere,  and  the  standing  of  t/tis 
college  could  have  been  as  high  as  that  of  O.HIJ  college  if  its 
graduates  had  been  made  to  fulfill  the  "Requirements  for 
Graduation,"  published  in  their  annual  announcements. 

The  only  "opposition  in  our  own  household"  is  the 
determined  .stain I  of  honest  members  of  the  Homoeopathic 
profession  against  the  isstdny  of  irregular  diplomas,  the 
gradation  of  incompetent  persons,  and  the  admission  to  the 
college  of  uneducated  matriculants.  Is  the  doing  of  these 
things  advancing  the  cause  of  homoeopathy? 

No  attempt  was  made  by  the  Board  of  Trustees  and 
Faculty  to  change  the  Taubner  diploma  from  an  unqualified 
diploma  to  an  "  honorary"  diploma  until  after  our  proof 
that  they  had  issued  an  unqualified  diploma  to  C.  Taubner, 
at  the  meeting  of  the  California  State  Homoeopathic  Medical 
Society,  held  May  12,  188G,  and  said  change  was  made 
September  _M>,  1880,  by  Drs.  William  Boericke  and  H.  C. 
French,  b}"  writing  "  the  words  'pro  honoris  causa''  into  the 
body  of  the  diploma,"  above  the  signatures,  without  the 
consent  of  "//  the  signers,  and  in  the  face  of  the  fact,  re- 
peatedly sworn  to  by  themselves,  that  the  diploma  should 
have  been  an  "  '/'/  ( •tun/cm,"  and,  furthermore,  while  charg- 
ing upon  others  the  mutilation  of  an  important  document, 
by  removing  essential  words,  how  can  they  relieve  them- 
selves from  the  graver  charge  of  having  totally  changed  the 
character  of  that  document  by  the  insertion  of  words  to 
which,  !>v  their  own  admission,  it  was  not  entitled? 

In  ('.  Taubner's  affidavit  accompanying  his  diploma  sent 
to  the  Hoard  of  Kxaminers  to  obtain  a  license,  he  .svrr<'r.s 
''that  he  is  the  person  named  in  the  diploma  accompanying 
this  affidavit ;  that  he  is  the  lawful  possessor  of  said  diploma; 


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that  said  diploma  was  procured  by  affiant  in  the  regular 
course  of  medical  instruction,  and  without  fraud  or  misrepre- 
sentation of  any  kind;"  whereas,  in  tbeir  written  answer,  the 
Board  of  Trustees  state  "  that  at  the  end  of  the  first  term 
an  ad  cundtm  degree  was  granted  him  instead  of  the  regular 
degree." 

If  C.  Taubuer  attended  the  lectures  for  the  one  term  how 
did  he,  "  with  an  imperfect  knowledge  of  the  English  lan- 
guage," derive  sufficient  benefit  therefrom  to  "  pass  all  the 
regular  examinations  ?"  There  is  no  evidence  to  show  thai 
he  did  "  pass  all  the  regular  examinations,"  and  there  is  an 
affidavit  from  Dr.  G.  M.  Pease,  a  professor  at  that  time, 
that  he  did  not  examine  him. 

As  they  admit  in  their  written  answer  that  he  had  no 
diploma  ///  medicine,  and  "that  he  was  granted  an  (id  cun- 
dtm degree  at  the  end  of  the  first  term,"  and  as  he  did  not 
fulfill  an//  of  the  "  Requirements  for  Graduation,"  as  pub- 
lished in  their  annual  announcement  for  1884,  he  was  not 
entitled  to  an//  diploma,  notwithstanding  he  "  paid  the  full 
fee,  to  wit,  the  .sum  of  8305." 


RESUME. 

I.  C.  Taubner  did  not  receive  an  "ad  cmtdcin"  degree 
from   the    Hahnemann   Medical   College  of   San   Francisco. 
See  photograph  of  diploma;    affidavits  of    Dr.   A.    McNeil, 
Frank  Swift,  and  the  joint  affidavit  of  Drs.  Selfridge,  J>re.y- 
fogle,  IVase,  Given,   Young  and  McNeil. 

II.  C.   Taubner    never    received    a    medical    education 
from    any  college;     and  therefore  had  no  medical   diploma 
before  the  one  he  procured   from    the    Hahnemann    Medical 
College  of  S;m  Francisco.       See  affidavit  of    Dr.  A.  McNeil; 
the  statement  of   Dr.  De  Derky,  at  the  State  Society  meet- 
ing,  held    May    \'2,    lssr»,    and    the,    joint    affidavit    of    Drs. 
JJoericke  and  French  and  E.  A.  Schreck. 

III.  C.  Taubner  was  not    entitled   to  an  "ml  cuuilnn" 
degree  in  medicine,  he  being  only  a  graduate;  in  Philosophy. 
See  statement   of    Dr.  De  Derky,  at   the  Slate  Soeietv  meet- 


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ing,  and  the  joint  affidavit  of  Drs.  Boericke  and  French  and 
E.  A.  Schreck. 

IV.  C.  Taubner  was  not  entitled  to  an  honorary  degree 
in  medicine,  (he  being  only  a  Ph.  D.)  and  for  the   reason 
that  such  degrees  are  granted  to  such  only  as  have  acquired 
eminence  in  the  medical  profession,  and  are  always  compli- 
mentary. 

V.  C.  Taubner  received  a  regular   diploma  from  the 
Hahnemanu  Medical  College  of  San  Francisco,  with  "ad 
eundem  "  written  on  the  margin  of  the  lower  right  hand  corner 
of  the  parchment,  which  was  probably  cut  off  in  the  process 
of   framing,   and  as  such  was  held   until    September  29th, 
1886  (nearly  two  years),  for  which  he  paid  $305.      See  affi- 
davits of  Dr.  A.  McNeil  and  Dr.  H.  C.  French;    joint  affi- 
davit  of   Drs.  Boericke  and   French    and   E.   A.   Schreck; 
photograph  of  the  diploma;  affidavit  of  Dr.  C.  B.  Currier. 

VI.  That    this   regular    diploma    was    change  1     to    an 
honorary  degree,  September  29th,  188(5.      See  joint  affidavit 
of  Drs.  Boericke  and  French  and  E.  A.  Schreok.     Notwith- 
standing Dr.   C.   B.   Currier  sicears  that   an   "  nd  enn<lem  " 
degree  was  granted  him.     See  Dr.  C.  B.  Currier's  affidavit. 

VII.  Had   C.    Taubner  been    a   previous   graduate   in 
medicine,  and  had  he  received  an  ad  eundem  degree,  as  Dr. 
C.  B.  Currier,  the  Dean,  sicears  lie  did,  the  fee  should  Lave 
been  only  £50,  instead  of  what  he  paid,  8305. 

See  annual  announcements  of  the  college,  and  Dr.  C.  B. 
Currier's  affidavit. 

VIII.  C.  Taubner  was  not  entitled  to   the   diploma  lie 
received  October  30,  1884,  because   ho  had  not  fulfilled  any 
of  the  "  Requirements  for  Graduation,"  except  the  payment 
of  8305  "tor  matriculation  and   graded   course  tickets  for  a 
full  three  years'   course.''     See   annual    announcements  and 
Dr.  C.  B.  Currier's  affidavit. 

IX.  The  removal   of  the  words  "ad  I'undem  "  from  the 
bottom  of  the  ]>archment  did  not  mutilate  the  DIPLOMA  of  C. 
Taubner,    because    being  far    beneath    the   sly nafn r<s   they 
formed  no  part  of  the  diploma,  and  therefore  no  essential  or 
material  part   was    removed.       See   Webster's  definition   of 
mutilate,   and  photograph  of  the  diploma. 


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X.  That  the  officers  of  the  college  required  no  docu- 
mentary evidence  from  C.  Taubner  as  to  his  previous  grad- 
uation in  medicine.  See  Dr.  C.  13.  Currier's  affidavit,  and 
auswer  by  the  joint  committee,  Drs.  Albertson  and  Boericke. 

lu  conclusion,  we  say  that,  in  all  this  controversy,  we  have 
acted  fairly  towards  the  college.  For 

f'irsf — To  avoid  giviug  the  matter  to  the  public  press  at 
the  annual  meeting  of  the  California  State  Homoeopathic 
Medical  Society,  we  moved  to  go  into  "  Committee  of  the 
Whole." 

Second — Subsequently,  instead  of  publishing  the  above 
facts,  we  gave  them  a  statement  embodying  these  facts,  with 
an  ultimatum,  thereby  affording  them  an  opportunity  of 
purifying  the  college  and  securing  the  co-operation  of  the 
entire  Homoeopathic  profession. 

The  above  paper  was  prepared,  submitted  to  the  minority, 
and  ordered  published  by  them,  but  to  avoid  giving  these 
facts  to  the  profession  at  large,  and  to  preserve  har- 
monv,  lino/her  attempt  was  made  to  la}*  the  subject  before 
the  State  Society,  and  for  that  purpose  we  asked  for  a 
special  meeting  of  the  California  State  Homoeopathic  Medi- 
cal Society  to  bo  called  on  March  'Joel,  1HS7,  at  10  A.  M.,  at 
tlu-  Y.  M.  C.  A.  H;ill  in  San  Francisco.  Immediately  after 
the  said  meeting  had  been  called  to  order  by  the  President, 
and  the  call  for  the  special  meeting  read,  Dr.  G.  H.  Palmer 
(, -i  member  of  the  Faculty)  arose  and  stated  that  this  was 
not  a  legally  called  meeting,  that  it  was  necessary  for  seven 
members  to  sign  a  call,  that  Dr.  Coxhead  (one  of  the  sign- 
ers of  the  call),  being  delinquent  in  dues,  was  therefore  not 
a  member  of  the  State  Society,  and  on  this  technicality  Dr. 
(i.  H.  Palmer  made  a  motion  to  adjourn,  which  was  imme- 
diately seconded  by  Dr.  -I.  A.  Albertson  (a  member  of  the 
Uoar.l  of  Trustees)  and  the  motion  to  adjourn  was  carried 
by  Twr.NTY-oNK  to  seven.  The  entire  twenty-one,  with  three 
exceptions,  being  attaches  or  graduates  of  the  Hahne- 
inann  Medical  College  of  San  Francisco. 

The  San  Francisco  />'<////  Knim'tner  of  March  2'M  (the  day 
of  the  meeting  of  the  special  session)  contained  an  article 


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headed  "  Doctors  at  War,"  which  was  made  up  of  statements 
made  by  Dr.  C.  B.  Currier,  the  Dean,  and  William  Boericke 
to  the  reporters  of  the  above  paper.  Thus  first  publishing 
to  the  world  the  subject  matter  which  the  minority  had  so 
carefully  tried  to  avoid,  in  repeatedly  refusing  to  be  inter- 
viewed by  the  reporters. 

The  San  Francisco  dailies  of  March  24th,  in  their  notices 
of  the  special  meeting,  commented  on  the  action  of  the  ma- 
jority as  follows:  "A  Scandal  Temporarily  Averted  by  a 
Hasty  Adjournment."  "Grave  Charges  Against  a  Medical  Col- 
lege." "Headed  Off  by  a  Technical  Motion.'"  "Aroused  to 
Fever  Heat  Over  Certain  Grave  Charges."  "Afraid  to  Face 
the  Facts." 

That  we  might  present  all  the  facts,  Ave  obtained  since  the 
above  mentioned  meeting,  the  following  affidavits  showing 
conclusively  that  the   "Joint  Committee "  knew   lohen  and 
by  ivhom  the  alleged  mutilation  was  made. 
STATE  OF  CALIFORNIA. 

•     ^S 

County  of  Sacramento.  ) 

Dr.  Charles  Taubner,  being  first  duly  sworn,  deposes  and 
says:  That  some  time  in  the  latter  part  of  1884  I  received  a 
diploma  from  the  Hahnemann  Medical  College  of  San  Fran- 
cisco. That  on  the  lower  right  band  edge  of  the  margin  were 
written  the  words  "  ad  ''inulcin."  That  thereafter  I  took  the 
diploma  to  Theodore  W.  Schwamb,  a  picture  framer  at  801  J 
street,  Sacramento,  Cal.,  to  have  it  framed.  That  subsequently, 
on  or  about  May,  188(5,  on  taking  the  said  diploma  from  the 
frame,  for  the  purpose  of  taking  the  said  diploma  to  San  Fran- 
cisco, I  observed  that  the  words  "  ml  I'tauli'in  "  were  not  there, 
and  I  believe  the  said  words  were  removed  by^said  Schwamb  in 
the  process  of  framing. 

That  thereafter,  Drs.  Schreck,  Boericke  and  French  visited 
my  office,  and  that  Dr.  Schreck  wrote  across  the  body  of  my 
diploma  the  words  "  [>r<>  hon'trix  caiifd,"  and  at  that  time  I  ex- 
pressed to  them  my  belief  that  the  words  "ml  I'unilcin"  had  been 
removed  in  the  process  of  framing. 

DK.  CHARLES  TAUBNEK. 

Subscribed  and  sworn  to  before  me,  ) 
this  'JOth  day  of  March,  1887.  J 

[SEAL]  H.  J.  GOETHE, 

Notarv  Public. 


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STATE  OF  CALIFORNIA,  ) 

County  of  Sacramento,  j 

Theodore  W.  Schwamb,  being  first  duly  sworn,  deposes  and 
says:  That  I  do  business  at  804  J  St.,  Sacramento,  Cal.  That  I 
am  now  and  have  been  for  about  nine  years  engaged  in  the  busi- 
ness of  selling  pictures  and  frames  and  of  framing  pictures  and 
documents  of  all  kinds.  That  it  is  my  custom,  in  framing  arti- 
cles, to  make  the  margin  at  the  top  and  on  either  side  of  a 
uniform  width,  by  laying  the  glass  that  is  to  cover  the  article 
framed  over  it,  and  measuring  to  see  that  these  three  sides  show 
an  even  width  of  margin.  That  I  then  cut  off  all  the  lower 
margin  that  extends  beyond  the  glass,  be  that  portion  more  or 
less,  and  without  reference  in  width  to  the  other  three  sides, 
being  always  careful  to  leave  a  sufficient  margin  around  the  arti- 
cle framed.  That  in  cutting  the  glasses  for  the  frames  they  may 
not  be  perfectly  square,  consequently  the  article  framed  would 
be  made  to  correspond  in  shape  to  the  glass. 

That  on  or  about  three  years  ago,  Dr.  C.  Taubner,  of  this  city, 
brought  to  me  a  diploma  issued  to  him  by  the  Hahnemann 
Medical  College  of  San  Francisco,  to  be  framed.  Owing  to  the 
lapse  of  time,  I  am  unable  to  say  positively,  but  my  impression  is 
that  I  cut  a  strip  from  the  lower  margin  of  this  diploma,  in  the 
process  of  framing,  us  above  described.  I  do  not  remember  no- 
ticing any  writing  on  the  lower  edge.  It  may  have  been  there, 
but  if  I  had  seen  it  there,  and  it  had  extended  beyond  the  glass, 
I  should  have  cut  it  off,  as  being  of  no  consequence. 

THEO.  W.  SCHWAMK. 

Subscribed  and  sworn  to  before  me,  ] 
this  UGtli  day  of  March,  1887.  j 

[SEAL]  C.  "W.  K\KER, 

Notary  Public,  Sacramento  County. 

J.  M.  SELFHIDGE,  M.  D., 
F.  P.  GREEN,  M.  D., 
T.  C.  COX  HEAD,  M.  D., 
J.  M.  YOUNG,  M.  D., 
E.  S   BKEYFOGLE,  M.  D., 

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